Name: First Among Sequels
ISBN: 9780340752029

Jasper Fforde

Everyone's favourite Book World heroine, Thursday Next, is back in Jasper Fforde's new bestseller.

First Among Sequels

Aditi

About a 3.5+/5. Very interesting. My first Jasper Fforde or Thursday Next, and I'll read all the others now.

Aditi Verma

Sarah Escorsa

➽ And the moral of this rereread is: reingeneered neanderthals + the Stupidity Surplus + cheese as a multipurpose tool/lethal weapon + Thomas Hardy's rip-roaringly funny tales + Hypothetical Oceans and Moral Dilemnas + the recipe for unscrambled eggs + Stiltonistas and the Old Town Cheese Mafia + fictional Thursdays, aka Thursday5 and Thursday1-4 + Bertha Rochester being abducted by aliens + the Pride and Prejudice refit + Nonrecurring Informative Phantasm, aka Speak Up and Shut Down + the Schrödinger Night Fever Principle + Fermat's Last Theorem + Dirty bombs and the Racy Novel vs. Feminist vs. Ecclesisatical border wars + the Mispeling Vyrus Farst Respons Groop + the Schrödinger Night Fever Principle =

 

👋 To be continued and stuff

· Book 1: The Eyre Affair ★★★★★
· Book 2: Lost in a Good Book ★★★★★
· Book 3: The Well of Lost Plots ★★★★★
· Book 4: Something Rotten ★★★★★
· Book 6: One of Our Thursdays is Missing ★★★
· Book 7: The Woman Who Died a Lot ★★★★
· Book 8: Dark Reading Matter -  to be published



[September 2013]

I recently decided to read the whole Thursday Next series again to refresh my memory before reading its most recent installment, The Woman Who Died a Lot. 

Reading my original review for this book, it seems I hadn't enjoyed it as much as I did the other installments because Thursday was suddenly much older and the story was mainly set in the real world. This sounds very strange to me now as I absolutely loved the book the second time around! 

Granted, the book is not as funny as the previous ones but I loved the story, plots, and intricate sub-plots. I simply can't get enough of Fforde's alternate UK and can't wait to read The Woman Who Died a Lot!



[July 2007]

Well I have to say that this is probably my least favorite book in the Thursday Next series. I guess I had a hard time getting used to the fact that 14 years had passed since "Something Rotten" and that Thursday was now 52. It just felt really strange. This installment wasn't as funny as the previous ones and to be honest, a bit boring... I think the biggest disappointment for me came from the fact that most of the action took place in the 'real world' as opposed to the 'Book World'. I did enjoy reading about the 'refitting' of Pride and Prejudice though:)

I hope Jasper Fforde gets more inspired before writing the next installment in the series!

Jenny Ramsay

Fourteen years after Thursday Next pegged out at Superhoop '88, her Jurisfiction job has been downgraded due to a potential conflict of interest, since her previous adventures are now themselves in print. Thursday's time is spent worrying about her teenage son Friday and tutoring new recruits. This being fiction, however, jeopardy is never far away. Sherlock Holmes is killed at the Rheinbach falls and his series is stopped in its tracks. Before this can be righted, Miss Marple dies in a narratively inexplicable car accident, bringing her series also to a close. Thursday, receiving a death-threat clearly intended for her written self, realises what is going on - there is a serial killer is loose in the Bookworld. Meanwhile, Goliath have perfected a 22-seater Prose Portal Luxury Coach, and plan on taking literary tourists on a holiday to the works of Jane Austen. Thursday alone realises the true intent of Goliath's unwanted incursions into fiction, but she can't fight all these battles on her own. She must team up with the one person she really can't get along with - the written Thursday Next, currently starring in The Great Samuel Pepys Fiasco. But it's no time to be picky. . .